The truth is out there, as evidenced by this wonderful video of the Coach Ray Graves Show broadcast after the 1966 Georgia-Florida game, won by Georgia 27-10.
Yes, it’s that Bill Stanfill game.
(Big hat tip goes to Saxondawg for unearthing this gem.)
Get The Picture 
Gem is right. This game is proof that the Heisman had moments of irrelevance even prior to 1980. 🙂
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Wanted to say up here near the top, appreciate the credit but the uploader of the Youtube video deserves the acclaim here. AboutThemDawgs blog seems to be the one. I’d love to know the story of how anyone got access to a 1966 coach’s show.
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I grew up playing ball with Stanfill’s son. Stanfill was always one of the assistant coaches on those teams. I used to love hearing his stories of ” the only weight lifting we did in the of season was 12 oz curls” and what not. But nothing beat the stories, and the reiteration of the moans themselves, for that matter, of Spurrier moaning like a woman at the bottom of those piles.
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Age difference, I played against Bill Stanfill when he was a Senior in HS and I was a Sophomore. To say he was a force in that game would be a serious understatement. He hit one of our players on a kickoff return and that concussion resulted in the end of his football career on doctors advice. We were the big city team and Cairo was the country bumpkin team that kicked our arses in the season opener. I also saw Ronnie Jenkins, the UGA RB, play throughout his HS career in, I believe, Class B ball. He was way too big and powerful for that classification.
Great piece of video Saxon, thanks for you and the Senator sharing.
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And “Thank You” for sharing some of your background as well. Do you remember Cairo’s big kicker during that time who also went to UGA?
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I don’t, but he had plenty of chances to kick XPTS against us. I remember Stanfill coming into our locker room to visit our senior QB who was a D1 recruit and hearing about a problem with a shower. He went in and ripped it out of the plaster to see what was ailing it. Damned impressive. I am guessing he was only a sophomore in that FU game.
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You speak of the “Big Toe From Cairo (pronounced Ky-RO). Bobby Walden.
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Bingo. Before Stanfill, he was on the lips of all Syrupmakers from Kay-ro.
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Bobby Walden, the Big Toe from Cairo? I thought he was 10 years earlier.
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Was Dooley wearing a Nike sweater and tie?
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Man, that’s awesome. When I was a kid Bill Stanfill, Jake Scott, and Mickey Mantle were my heros.
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heroes
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Same here, Gurkha. Awesome is right.
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My Mom used to cheer for the Brooklyn Dodgers while the Yankees and their “Murderers Row” were my heroes. Shared the adulation of Bill and Jake when older. It was always fun watching those Dawgs and, if you didn’t notice in the film, watching Erk’s D slowly take control and win the game. Hughes, Kirby Moore and Patton continue to stand out in the memories.
Saxondawg, you’ve done a public service to Dawg Nation by showing the young whippersnappers what and who we cheered for “back when”. Kudos.
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Here’s one for the young whippersnappers. Back in the 60’s one baseball game a week was shown on TV. That was the CBS Game of the Week on Sat afternoon. IIRC CBS owned the Yankees back then, so the Yankees were on every week, ( At least in GA ). Man, I loved Mantle, Maris, Whitey Ford and the rest.
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In the60’s
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Damn….in the 60’s it was NBC that had the game of the week with Curt Gowdy. I used to watch wearing my glove.
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OK, was it CBS who owned the Yankees? It only 50 years ago so I might be confused. I could have sworn I watched the Yankees almost every weekend at some point the 60’s. I also either had a glove on my hand or a bat in my hands. I remember my mom yelling at me to quit swinging the bat in the house as I pretended to be Mickey Mantle hitting a home run.
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That was a fun half hour! Loved Vince tacking on a TD with 6 seconds left. That’s the way Ga/Fla game should go, Gator tears in the stands.
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Gotta wonder if that tacked on 6 is still driving SOS to revenge. Maybe that explains some of his determination to run up the score on Georgia when he the coach at Fl.
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Planted the seed for butt-kickings which continue to this day.
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wouldn’t mind a rebirth of the Prophecies of Ooga from ye olde Saxondawg
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infinity.
I really miss his Friday posts…
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This is the Oracle of Ooga, the Hermit of Hahira, and these are his weekly prophecies as delivered unto Saxondawg, who is his messenger.
Hear, O dog-people! Ooga speaks! Heed ye the words of the hermit Ooga!
On the fifth day of the ninth month of the final year, there will come invaders from the west and the north, and they shall be the aggie-people of Oo-Tah! Like the locusts of Lithonia will they fall upon the ancient city of Athens, for are they not of the land of the lake of salt?
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I remember my grandfather sharing this joke with me from around that time:
When Spurrier was getting fitted for his Heisman suit, the tailor said to him, “Stand still!”, but Spurrier, hearing, “Stanfill!” crumbled in a heap on the ground.
Or something like that.
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“Injured himself jumping through the store window” was one punch line that I can remember.
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Nice shot of Uga at the end of the reel. So tell me which do you prefer? Early Uga or today’s version?
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Early Uga, paws-down. He looked a lot healthier and more mobile than the recent vintages.
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1966 is my favorite year. The Beatles’ Revolver…Adam West as Batman…The Rolling Stones’ Aftermath…Sean Connery as 007 in Thunderball…Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea…Lost in Space…The Man From UNCLE…oh and Steve Spurrier denied an SEC championship…don’t think FU or any other SEC school had a shot at the national championship…1966 was the beginning of
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Original Star Trek! And Mission Impossible.
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This. That year was just awesome any way you look at it. The Braves arrived, the Falcons arrived, UGA won its first SECC under Dooley, the first Super Bowl was played, music was incredible and color TV hit its stride. I was only 10, but I knew it couldn’t get much better.
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That’s the year we knocked off an unbeaten Tech team, also the year of the infamous 10-10 ND-MichSt tie
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What a great way to start a Friday, or any other day for that matter. Thanks to Saxondawg and the Senator.
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More proof.
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Was that a young Buck Belue on the sideline behind Dooley dress in a red sweater at about the 23:10 mark?
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Wow…that’s a great question, AHD. It certainly looked like him but why would a recruit be on the sideline next to Dooley?
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“I’m going to turn Vince Dooley in right here in front of you,” Lane said as he addressed an imaginary crowd of admirers in his mind about the recruitment of new Georgia quarterback Buck Belue
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This is a great one, and if I recall, missing a chunk of the game but one of my favorite UGA-Florida games ever. That fourth down call brought on the deluge. People remember the tight end pass the year before, but this was a far better game (if you like offense, anyway).
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’76 was when I was coming into my UGA fandom at age 11. Lots of great memories of Pollard, the Big Mac attack, Goff & Robinson, Ulysses Norris, and the Junkyard Dogs. Also, judging from crowd shots, clearly Georgia women have just always been better looking than Florida women.
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Checkout the Mike Adamale sideline interview at the 56:00 min mark. He outlines the type of domination we used to have over these guys pre-1990. Great video, thank you for sharing!
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The play calling in the first half was awful. Way to go Bobo!
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Nice one, Derek. Unexpected makes it better.
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OLD SCHOOL!! Straight on kickers. Pennants. White dress shirts with ties and coats. White socks. Big hair dos. Fans on the sidelines. Crying Gator girls. Scoring with six seconds left and not taking a knee. Man, I can smell the Bourbon! Play that just before the WLOCP this fall! Show it to the team!
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“White dress shirts with ties and coats” and with a goatskin of red wine under the coat. One fraternity reserved a place at the back of the stands and the color of their white shirts (no coats!)after the game was the mark of their enjoyment success.
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Sorry, that was at home games.
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1976 was my Senior year at UGA. For some reason that game is kind of a blur.
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Many WLOCPs were a blur to me from 1986-2001. Some because I wanted to forget them and some because, well, you know.
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Yes, most games were a blur that year; except the Alabama shutout. That was a beautiful night in Athens.
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First time the Tide was shut out in 59 games.
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You said it brother. As drunk as I was, I remember that game very well. My friends and I stood the whole game. Nobody even thought about sitting down. The best time I’ve ever had at any sporting event, ever.
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Uh….that would be Sister, Brother 😉 Agreed, best time ever.
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Magnificent Bill is beginning to have failing health. Keep them in your prayers. Our prized Georgia possession is a football (That goes to our first grandson now 1 year old) signed by Bill, Jake Scott, Herschel, Dooley, Richt, Munson, Trippi, Stafford, Moreno, Pollack, Greene, Butler, Woerner, Lindsay Scott, Belue and Shockley. Of the Sporting News top ten dawgs we are missing Sinkwich (I don’t think we can get that one) , Champ and Hoage. We are wanting to get Hines and Murray too. Many memories go with these names and this blog helps them live on!
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